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ORL
2010
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12 years 10 months ago
An embedded Markov chain approach to stock rationing
Rationing is an inventory policy that allows prioritization of demand classes. It enables the inventory system to provide higher service levels for critical demand classes. In thi...
Mehmet Murat Fadiloglu, Önder Bulut
MSOM
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Implementing Supply-Routing Optimization in a Make-to-Order Manufacturing Network
Dell’s supply chain for desktops involves Asian vendors shipping components by sea to several U.S. plants. While suppliers are responsible for shipping enough inventory, Dell ca...
John Foreman, Jérémie Gallien, Julie...
IOR
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Inventory Management of a Fast-Fashion Retail Network
Working in collaboration with Spain-based retailer Zara, we address the problem of distributing over time a limited amount of inventory across all the stores in a fast-fashion ret...
Felipe Caro, Jérémie Gallien
MSOM
2007
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13 years 3 months ago
What Can Be Learned from Classical Inventory Models? A Cross-Industry Exploratory Investigation
: Classical inventory models offer a variety of insights into the optimal way to manage inventories of individual products. However, top managers and industry analysts are often co...
Sergey Rumyantsev, Serguei Netessine
TRANSCI
2002
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13 years 3 months ago
The Stochastic Inventory Routing Problem with Direct Deliveries
Vendor managed inventory replenishment is a business practice in which vendors monitor their customers' inventories, and decide when and how much inventory should be replenis...
Anton J. Kleywegt, Vijay S. Nori, Martin W. P. Sav...
MANSCI
2006
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13 years 3 months ago
Supply Chain Choice on the Internet
Internet companies extensively use the practice of drop-shipping, where the wholesaler stocks and owns the inventory and ships products directly to customers at retailers' re...
Serguei Netessine, Nils Rudi
IMDS
2006
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13 years 3 months ago
Impact of just-in-time inventory systems on OEM suppliers
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John F. Kros, Mauro Falasca, Scott Nadler
AIPS
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Heuristics for Constraint-Directed Scheduling with Inventory
Despite the importance of the management of inventory in industrial scheduling applications, there has been little research that has addressed reasoning about inventory directly a...
J. Christopher Beck
AIA
2006
13 years 5 months ago
A Swarm Intelligence Approach to Counting Stacked Symmetric Objects
In a manufacturing environment it is often necessary to perform a manual inventory of finished goods and raw materials. These raw materials might be wood, plastic or metal and oft...
Chad George, James Wolfer